George Oganda

George Oganda is a graduate research assistant at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, focusing on regenerative agriculture practices and insect pest identification in specialty crops. With significant experience in potted plant production at Bergen's Greenhouses, Inc., George has cultivated various flower varieties in controlled greenhouse environments. Previous roles include serving as a research assistant at the Yair Research Station, where field data on Date Palm growth and aquaculture feeding experiments were conducted, and a work student position at Hamidbar Sheli Ltd, which involved hands-on agricultural tasks with organic crops. George holds a Master of Science in Crop Sciences from the University of Illinois, a non-thesis master's degree in Plant Sciences from Tel Aviv University, and a Bachelor of Science in Land Resources Planning and Management from Jomo Kenyatta University.